[AZ-Observing] Re: New Sky Brightness App for iOS
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- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 12:59:36 -0700
I hope the developers take night vision into account and design the app with
dark screens and reduced backlighting.
Enjoy!
Jim
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Mike Wiles <mikewilesaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It will be interesting to see how well this works. It'll be quite a useful
> tool if indeed it lives up to its promise. The only drawback will be the
> utter destruction of one's own night vision from the screen backlighting
> while taking the iSQM reading. I hope it works well, and I hope to see an
> Android version in the future.
> Mike
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I just learned that a new app that measures sky brightness using an
>> iPhone's camera is approaching release. The authors claim that the
>> "photometer" inside these tiny cameras is good enough to make measurements
>> that compare well against Unihedron's Sky Quality Meter.
>>
>> http://www.darkskymeter.com/?page_id=147
>>
>> Tom
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